Rendezvous With Rama Arthur C Clarke

Vintage Old Time Radio Broadcast-Family Friendly Radio Entertainment From a Different Time.

[@InnocentSon92]

Can't wait for the Denis Villeneuve film

[@Alex_Penjamin]

Hope it actually happens. That’s a long way down the road

[@PeterStawicki]

Absolutely not he wastes far too much time on the visual and this is too long a book for a visual art piece

[@jotarokujoandstarplatinum1280]

@@PeterStawicki You seem to misundetstand the point of a visual artistic medium.

[@PeterStawicki]

@@jotarokujoandstarplatinum1280 Sorry. you must be right and he still would not be my first choice.

[@jotarokujoandstarplatinum1280]

@@PeterStawicki I think he'd be pretty great tbh. He's a master of perspective and proportion. It probably won't go hard into explaining things, but it was the same deal with 2001: A Space Odyssey, and both the movie and book are wonderful.

[@skivvy3565]

Wow. Not just amazing story but the soundtrack and narrator create such a sense of suspense, wonder and anticipation. So glad I stumbled across a reference to this while going though sci-fi short story anthologies

[@markfisher7962]

CREDITS: Read by Robert Trumbull, adapted and directed by Stuart Lee for Family Radio Programming on cassette tape. No copyright date.

[@jamesrmore]

Very cool dramatic read from a simpler time. Enjoyed it, I see there is a BBC version. Thank God for KZbin!

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

That was fantastic.

[@patytrico]

The Rama saga is one of my favourites! Thank you for share this version!

[@marktubb6667]

F hi

[@fuzzywzhe]

There's an audiobook version online here. OOPS! Wrong page - obviously you know this. Too many tabs open..

[@mikeyoung9810]

My favorite book. I hadn't heard this narrator before but he's pretty good.

[@SuLokify]

Really reminds me of old radio plays or television hosts. Very evocative of the time the book was published. I love it.

[@JuanManuelGrijalvo]

A very good book it is, yet I like "Childhood's End" even better.

[@mrlemon5438]

Arthur Clarke wrote this novel and years later, a large cylinder, Oumoamoa, flew past Earth.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

But it wasn't a cylinder, just an elongated planetoid drifting through the solar system.

[@NFawc]

That's why it SHOULD have been called Rama!

[@mahl1799]

@@BritishBeachcomber that's contested

[@BritishBeachcomber]

@@mahl1799 Recent analysis has shown that it is a natural object

[@simonb8464]

It had stasis beings on board, the cylinder was Remote Viewed by a few people.

[@jameswatt2686]

So excited for the movie.

[@Goodmorning592]

Yes!!

[@grantlauzon5237]

The “we have something interesting sign” is next to the “I really wish I weren’t here right know” button.

[@tuttt99]

I had this cassette way back in the 80's

[@TK-en2hq]

Lol I forgot cassettes existed

[@starclone4]

Thank you so much !!!!

[@zapfanzapfan]

I'd like to see a movie on the level of 2001 made from this book.

[@Emdee5632]

Rendez-vous with Rama is going to be a movie directed by Denis Villeneuve! The first book in the Rama series is the most important one of course. However I prefer the later novels co-written with Gentry Lee. RwR still reads and feels like an older Clarke novel. The typical uninteresting Clarkian characters, technology is fascinating, we are one happy human family (well maybe not the Mercurians). Whereas the later novels (1989-1993) feel more like written by a next generation of writers (not sure how much of them was by Clarke himself...). Between novels 1 and 2 in the Rama timeline there was a severe economic crises, even causing the human colonies in the solar system to be abandoned. Human society looks much more grim compared to the first novel and to be fair more realistic. Still the movie will probably be very interesting! There were also two prequel (or inquel) novels written by Lee himself in the 1990s, without Clarke, set in the same Rama universe.

[@aleciolemos4873]

Wait, what is the name of the another novels written by Lee?

[@donkerouac3746]

I felt that the three "sequels" to RWR were a huge disappointment...predictable, annoying political correctness slimed it's way in but mostly, they lacked Clark's wit, his ability to intellectually involve the reader and the "just can't put it down" writing style. Sadly, it parallels Hollywood's degeneration from SCiFI space movies that involved the reader with quality writing to today's cheesy tripe replacing intellect and depth with over-reliance on cartoonish special effects and blood, gore and horror.

[@SuLokify]

@@aleciolemos4873 Rama II/Rama Revealed and the third is The Garden of Rama. They're written by Gentry Lee with consultation from Clarke. More character driven and less focused on the science.

[@BaldingClamydia]

@@SuLokify Now with 50% more questionable relationships! lol I thought the stories were very interesting, but so many pairings of people...weren't great.

[@cliveperrott]

So true...A betrayal of the source novel. Truly awful.@@donkerouac3746

[@LaniBanani]

Anyone else think this is a companion piece to 2001 A Space Odessy

[@tortysoft]

It came first I think.

[@Emdee5632]

2001 was published in 1968, Rama in 1973.

[@tortysoft]

@@Emdee5632 Good ideas are worth repeating :-)

[@planetofthegapes]

The interstitial synthesizer music is amazing.

[@keithmoss7752]

Thanks for telling me what happens...won't bother listening

[@DeepContrails]

Brilliant done. Congrats to the team immensely enjoyed this! Have you guys done the rest of the series ?

[@The_Gnome_Chomskee]

Um. Only two hours? Man, they cut a lot.

[@kevingraham8119]

Mine as well .

[@fine93]

the same reason i don't like contact, damn military and religion people ruin everything... luckily it didn't get blown away

[@sahamation]

Is this a shorter version of the book?🧐

[@Evolvermn]

Yes

[@leosagan3692]

Yes, heavily cut. The reader is quite good though.

[@Bookspine5]

Timestamps?

[@CorModo]

The beginning is missing.

[@jasonrobinson6084]

It should've been called Sita, because of conventional naming methods for ships. Definitely an interesting read though 👌

[@zlatkoigric5084]

u gonna froze.go 'outside'.jfc... iz ever single step haz to be doodled to me?

[@samuelatwood9924]

this reading has been abridged and is not a full representation of the source material.

[@petersmafield1494]

I like the book "Eon" by Greg Bear better than Rendezvous with Rama.

[@Yesica1993]

I loved this book. But, ugh, I'd forgotten about the last part. How vile and unnecessary.

[@anthonycannon6482]

1:21:00

[@savagefrito]

How about you dont say a spoiler right off the bat?

[@phyllispetras8402]

CASSETTE??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[@zapfanzapfan]

You know, pre-CD tech?

[@charleshowie2074]

Is this your first day on planet earth sweetheart?

[@madworld-ul2tg]

It's an ancient device used for scientists 😂😂😂

[@margueritejohnson8373]

I think reel to reel audio might just blow your mind!

[@Emdee5632]

Too many millennials, and generation Z and gen Alpha here... Human history DID exist before you were born :-)

[@RoryFrenn]

"there goes newton's third law" yeah that's kinda weak even at the time, there are other ways to preserve the third law while still traveling at high speeds especially in the science fiction realm.

[@Stringsmith]

The huff-snuff punctuation from the reader ruins an otherwise great story. The reader feels rushed. The rest of the Rama series plods along slowly until Nicole pimps out her daughter to her intermediate lover when her husband returns from being lost in Rama for years, with no memory, no food, no water... I can't help but wonder how Gentry Lee's JPL peers viewed him after delivering his near-incestuous storytelling. At best, 50-year-old man sleeping with his lover's 20-year-old daughter, with mom's blessing, is a perversion, possibly an old man's fantasy. At worst, cringe-worthy.

[@stevecharman8420]

He's too close to the mic. The engineer who set the recording up should go back to school.